The Yemeni national team player, Abdul Majeed Sabara, held the referee of his team’s match with Saudi Arabia, the Omani, Qasim Al Hatami, responsible for the loss that his country suffered, with a score of 2-3, yesterday, for the second round of the Arabian Gulf Cup tournament, “Gulf 26”, currently being hosted by Kuwait. .
The player said in press statements after the end of the match: “The referee was clearly prejudiced against us, at a time when he was lenient with the Saudi national team players, and did not give him administrative penalties as he did with us.”
He added: “We were subjected to injustice in some decisions that caused us to concede the second goal, which came from a penalty kick, as there was no intentionality in the ball that touched the hand of one of our defenders, and these decisions deprived us of victory or at least a draw.”
He pointed out: “We are happy with the level we presented in the tournament in general, especially against the strong Saudi team, against which we scored two goals. We will continue with the same image in the Bahrain match, which will be held in the third round, as we seek to provide an outstanding level and achieve a positive result.”
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